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...detail, as if they inhabited far-distant planets. One occasion when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist Albert Lasker lengthily congratulated him in the innocent belief that he was the real-life hero of the newly opened Broadway musical, The King...
...Campaigner Nikita Khrushchev addressed 14,000 constituents of his Moscow steel-mill district in Moscow's Luzhniki Sports Palace. "The Soviet people are a people of champions, a trail-blazing people," he proclaimed. "The trust of such a people is a great and lofty honor that must be repaid. I promise to make every effort to live up to the trust." Pointing with pride to Russia's peace-loving protestations, he viewed with alarm "the stubborn unwillingness of certain Western circles" to agree to a summit meeting at once. Khrushchev praised the "immense positive role" of his, industrial...
...subcommittee booted Bernard Schwartz. Throughout it all, Schwartz's chief defender had been the subcommittee chairman, Missouri Democrat Morgan Moulder. Next day Moulder resigned his chairmanship, to be replaced by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, chairman of the full House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Schwartz characteristically repaid Moulder for his backing. Said he: "He turned out to be a weak...
Famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock repaid part of the debt he owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
...return, the central group would stand all losses incurred by any of its component organizations. These debts, however, would remain on the books to be repaid with five percent interest when possible...